2052. The world is a mess. The climate change meltdown has triggered an endless cycle of natural disasters. Nationalist paramilitaries battle against religious extremists. Multinational corporations, with their own security forces, have replaced global institutions as the only real power-brokers. Waves of pandemics have closed borders with such regularity that travel has become mostly virtual. describes humanity ‘s last shot at solving the world ‘s problems. Can Aurora assemble a team to reverse the splintering of the international community and avert an even more dystopian future?Join <a target="_blank" href="https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/john-feffer/">John Feffer</a> and IPS Director <a target="_blank" href="https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/tope-folarin/">Tope Folarin</a> as they discuss Feffer’s “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1654-songlands">Songlands</a>,” the stand-alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy.

2052. The world is a mess. The climate change meltdown has triggered an endless cycle of natural disasters. Nationalist paramilitaries battle against religious extremists. Multinational corporations, with their own security forces, have replaced global institutions as the only real power-brokers. Waves of pandemics have closed borders with such regularity that travel has become mostly virtual. describes humanity ‘s last shot at solving the world ‘s problems. Can Aurora assemble a team to reverse the splintering of the international community and avert an even more dystopian future?Join <a href="https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/john-feffer/">John Feffer</a> and IPS Director <a href="https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/tope-folarin/">Tope Folarin</a> as they discuss Feffer’s “<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1654-songlands">Songlands</a>,” the stand-alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy.

Songlands: John Feffer and Tope Folarin in Conversation

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Songlands: John Feffer and Tope Folarin in Conversation

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